First ever GOLD!

[Sand-duner]

I finally broke the barrier! After 3 years or so of searching, cursing and asking "why can't I?" I finally found GOLD!! (Can ya tell I'm excited?) Went out to a local park I'd hit before, but haven't been to in about a year. Searched around, found about a dollar or so in loose change, then decided to pack it in and hit the next area. Something told me to go over by the monkey bars. So I swung the coil for a minute and didn't really get anything, until I got a nice low nickel/foil bouncer at 2" down. Normally, I don't dig foil, or even nickel tones sometimes, if they're way down, usually, that's asking for wasted time finding bottle caps. But this time, I said to myself "Hey, it's only 2" down, if it's nothing, I've lost maybe 30 seconds". So I scooped at the mulch with my foot and I see that beautiful sight, just a glimpse of yellow coming from below. I calmly reached down, did a quick eyeball inspection and put it in my pocket. When I got home, I cleaned it up and looked for mint marks. 10K on the pendant and 417 on both sides of the clasp. OH YEAH!!! I know some of you find gold all the time and don't get excited about small items, but this is my first, I'm celebrating!! OK, on to the pics!

 

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[Wildcat1750]

Congratulations on your first gold!

 

[aarias]

Nice find man, now go for your second gold!

Bobcat
Celina Texas

 

[jcobb]

That's one heck of a 1st gold find! Congrats!!!

 

[JOE-DIRTDIGGER]

nice gold find, im still waiting myself

 

[aquachigger]

Congrat's dude.That's a beautiful piece.

 

[matt092079]

Gold is gold! Celebrate away!

 

[jewelerguy]

sweet! that's a nice chain

 

[birdman]

WTG!! That is a nice one also.

 

[mrmrsbenoit]

great job i am also looking forward to finding my first gold.

 

[Beercanman]

That almost qualifies as 2 gold

 

[JimDon]

Congrats on your first gold. I hope you learned that if you are not digging foil, pull tab, nickel signals you wont find gold.

 

[looknforgold]

Congrats on your first Gold, I'm still waiting on my first solid gold find.

 

[eagleforce]

Wow! Great gold find! I love those pendants. Congrats!!!

 

[hamiddetecting]

First gold

Congratulations

 

[Terry Soloman]

I finally broke the barrier! After 3 years or so of searching, cursing and asking "why can't I?" I finally found GOLD!! (Can ya tell I'm excited?) Went out to a local park I'd hit before, but haven't been to in about a year. Searched around, found about a dollar or so in loose change, then decided to pack it in and hit the next area. Something told me to go over by the monkey bars. So I swung the coil for a minute and didn't really get anything, until I got a nice low nickel/foil bouncer at 2" down. Normally, I don't dig foil, or even nickel tones sometimes, if they're way down, usually, that's asking for wasted time finding bottle caps. But this time, I said to myself "Hey, it's only 2" down, if it's nothing, I've lost maybe 30 seconds". So I scooped at the mulch with my foot and I see that beautiful sight, just a glimpse of yellow coming from below. I calmly reached down, did a quick eyeball inspection and put it in my pocket. When I got home, I cleaned it up and looked for mint marks. 10K on the pendant and 417 on both sides of the clasp. OH YEAH!!! I know some of you find gold all the time and don't get excited about small items, but this is my first, I'm celebrating!! OK, on to the pics!

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Congratulations on your first Golden Ticket Sand-duner! Now you understand why old gold hunters like me have dedicated collections of pulltabs.

 

[tyrooney]

Very nice. Today I'm headed for the monkey bars (again).

 

[dennco2000]

Congrats, are you going to keep it or cash it in?

 

[Sand-duner]

Still haven't decided whether I will keep it or not. It should be enough to finally pay off the detector, but I dont have a gram scale (yet) so i dont know exactly what its worth. I think I may just have to start investigating more pull tab signals from now on!

 

[Silver Worm]

Good show ole boy!